RE: [PATCH v3 2/3] fpga: dfl: add the userspace I/O device support for DFL devices

[Wu, Hao]

> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] fpga: dfl: add the userspace I/O device support
> for DFL devices
> 
> On 12/18/20 12:05 AM, Wu, Hao wrote:
> >> Subject: [PATCH v3 2/3] fpga: dfl: add the userspace I/O device support
> for
> >> DFL devices
> >>
> >> This patch supports the DFL drivers be written in userspace. This is
> >> realized by exposing the userspace I/O device interfaces.
> >>
> >> The driver leverages the uio_pdrv_genirq, it adds the uio_pdrv_genirq
> >> platform device with the DFL device's resources, and let the generic UIO
> >> platform device driver provide support to userspace access to kernel
> >> interrupts and memory locations.
> >>
> >> The driver matches DFL devices in a different way. It has no device id
> >> table, instead it matches any DFL device which could not be handled by
> >> other DFL drivers.
> > Looks like we want to build UIO driver as the default/generic driver for DFL,
> > it seems fine but my concern is that UIO has its own limitation, if some day,
> > dfl device is extended, but UIO has limitation, then we may need to select
> > another one as the default driver.. or we can just match them using
> > id_table as we know UIO meets the requirement for those DFL devices?
> 
> When we have multiple defaults, could this be handled in the configury ?

Do you mean select it using configuration options? But if people have already
created the software stack on the old one, then it's a valid requirement that
we need both old and new defaults working at the same time... it's hard to
ask everybody to switch to the new one.

Hao

> 
> Tom
>